Emo Otaku wrote:...
The most advanced civilisation in the ancient world used some fairly basic geometry, engineering and a s**t-load of slaves to build some of the most impressive and longest lasting monuments to the dead in human history.
Oh and yes the answer is 42
Actually, as far as anyone knows, pyramids were not built by slaves. Probably not getting well paid, but it wasn´t a slave labour thing.
And 48 i might believe, but 42? Nope.
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SMR wrote:What did the pre-flood civilization have?
If you assume religious dogma as facts, then you have no interest in learning about real history anyway.
And which flood exactly? There´s been quite a number of major floodings happening in the last 20000 years, biggest one probably 12k years ago with lots of ice melting and drowning a bunch of areas that have stayed under water since then. Like west of Europe for example.
The only explanation without going ET is they had technology.
Really? Well that depends on wether you´re talking about "technology" in the modern sense, or in a more historically accurate generalised sense.
The wheel is a technology, just as a hammer is or a winch is. But few would call it that today.
200,000 ton rock used as a base stone. (The stone is found in Ecuador.) How did they move that size of rock thousands of years ago?
Veeeerrryy very slowly?
Well there are people who has seriously been investigating this stuff, only solution i can recall right now was sound.
They even managed to replicate lifting a rock a few tons heavy with sound, using modern sound systems and not doing such a great job of it, but the theory was still proven sound... ( great pun wasn´t it?
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And computer simulations said it should be possible to figure out how to use it to lift almost any weight with it.
There´s also some notes from one of Sven Hedin´s travels, and he may have been a bit of a racist prick and prone to talking big, but he wasn´t unreliable(the width of a river might be described as 10-20% extra large but it would be where and like he said it was), and he found someplace in southern Asia (Nepal IIRC) where he noted with interest that the locals used drumming and voices combined to make stones for building material "jump" up the side of a cliff to where their village was.
The story could easily be a snafu of some sort, but there´s no actual reason beyond instituitional disbelief to assume it is.
Which would mean the method has been figured out both in theory and practise as well as found to have appeared at least once during history.
And plenty more wild ideas from the people that figured that one out. From what i´ve read, most ideas does potentially work, the big question being wether it´s plausible for someone a few thousands years ago to figure it out and then be able to make it work reliably enough to use it.
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There were a lot of really big rocks moved by one ancient civilization or another, but "really big" was below the several dozen ton range, if that. Stonehenge, Ancient Egypt, the Peruvian Incas, Easter Island come to mind, and I'm sure there are other examples. None of them are all that difficult to figure out how they did it with pulleys, rollers, levers and a few dozen years of work by lots of people to figure out the tricks of the trade.
Several dozen tons?
Shows what you know.
Try a 350 ton, 30m high, single piece stone obelisk, carved in Assuan, eventually placed in front of Amon Ra´s temple, after being transported on the Nile on a ship made for this alone. A single ship carrying two of those obelisks. As commanded by queen Hatshepsut.
The official who handled Thotmes Is half as heavy obelisks had it fully written down.
And that´s still almost 200 ton each.
On a 63 by 21m ship, also built specifically for this one "job".
The above are well known, as there are surviving records. Not a normal thing.
I also think you'll find that moving that 200Kton rock is a fable - it didn't happen.
Lots of things that have been considered impossible fables, up until it was proven real.
Historical levels of literacy for example, up until a few decades ago, everyone "knew" that illiteracy was the all-prevailing norm.
Then there was a find in what was the USSR, of the pre-medieval equivalent of post-it notes on bark. Which of course was promptly ignored as a hoax thanks to the cold war.
Up until a similar find was made here in Sweden, thanks to someone who knew of the Soviet find being careful about what to look for.
And using a simple version of runes, the bark pieces found had pretty much everything you could ask for, from notes on game scores, via a love letter, via a shopping list, jokes, contracts, notes on ship design, advertisment etc etc...
At least some notes had been written by children, some by thralls or even slaves, all had extremely varied originators, and they could all apparently write well enough for this to be a normal way of communication.
10 or 11th century, maaaybe 9th.
